Device for making butter curls or butter rolls



T. BAUMAN March 5, 1946.

DEVICE FOR 'MAKINGBUTTERCURLS OR BUTTERROLLS Fil e d June 25, 1944 INVENTOR. Ted Ban/mm? Patented Mar. 5. 1946 PATENT" OFFICE nnvrcn Fort MAKING BUTTER cunts on BUTTER noL s Ted Bauman, Milwaukee, Wis.

Application June 23, 1944, Serial No. 541,719

2 Claims.

My invention relates toimprovements in devices for making buttercurls or butterrolls.

More specifically, my invention relates to a new and improved device of the character described which is designed for individual serving in restaurants, hotels, and households.

The main object of the present invention is the provision of a device of the character described which will facilitate the making of buttercurls or rolls and which will enable anybody to make attractive and easy-to-spread buttercurls or rolls 7 without touching the same by human hands.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of a device of the character described which will prevent the butter from sticking to any parts Of the device with which butter may come in contact.

A further object of the present invention is the provision of a device of thecharacter described which is comparatively small in size and light in weight so that it can be placed on the table and which reduces the time necessary for making buttercurls or rolls to a minimum; thus each person can produce his own buttercurls 01' rolls for immediate use,' and it will no longer be necessary to prepare acertain quantity of curls which, when not used immediately, are more subject to deterioration than butter which is kept in the form of a cake.

Still a further object of the present invention is the rovision of a device of the character described which is simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, but sturdy and well adapted to the rough usage to which such devices are usually subjected.

Further objects of the instant invention reside in any novel feature of construction or operation or novel combination of parts present in the embodiment of the invention described and shown in the accompanying drawing. whether within or without the scope of the appended claims and irrespective of other specific statements as to the scope of the invention contained herein.

In the drawing: I

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a preferred embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 ma section view on the line 2-4 of Figure 1. a

t Figure 3 is a front elevation; and

Figure 4 is a side elevation of the device.

Similar numerals refer to similar pa throughout the several views.

A U-shaped plate I having side panels 2 and (c1. ai-vi' tion of the device. U-shaped guides l are rectangularly secured to plate I by means of angle and U-irons 5 or in any other suitable manner. A floorboard 6. of a material which prevents 5 butter from sticking thereon, is carried by the plate I. I prefer to make the fioorboard 6 of hard wood and to wet it with water before the cake of butter, which is indicated by dash-anddotted lines in Figures 2 and 4, and to which the numeral I denotes, is placed thereupon.

' The cutter 8 is slidable in and detachable from i the guides 4 and is adapted to form one, two, or

more curls of butter at each downward stroke. I

I prefer to carry out this feature of my inlo vention in the manner shown in the drawing,

where it will be seen that the corrugated cutting edge 9 is angularly disposed to the cakeof butter I, and that it is subdivided by one or more small blades l0 (one in the present instance),

go which is arranged at right angles to cutting edge at its lower side. These grooves l2 and I4 are curved in such a manner that groove 12, which is adjacent to the cutting edge 9. causes the butter slide ii to curl (Figure 2), and that groove It serves as a guide as the curl l6 becomes larger 30 (Figure 4). The parts II, which are secured to the cutter 8 or to the piece II as in the instance shown, engage the U-shaped guides 4, which are open at the top so that the cutter unit consisting of the parts 8, 9, and II can be pulled out over '35 the top of the guides 4. I prefer to make the piece I I of hard wood and to dip the cutter unitparticularly the piece ll-before operating thedevice, first in hot and then in cold water; hot water soaks quickly into the hard wood piece, vI I,

40 and the cold water causes closing of the pores of the hard wood so that the piece I I will remain wet during a considerable period of time during which the device may be in use. The corrugation of the cutting edge 9 will produceattractive easy-to-spreadrolls or curls and the blade III will subdivide the curl into two butter curls, so

that two buttercurls will be produced during each downward stroke of the cutter 8. Instead of one blade Hi there can also be arranged two so or more blades III in order to produce three, four,

or more small buttercurls during each downward stroke. A handle I8 is extended from the cutter 8 so that it will not be necessary to touch directly any parts 'of the cutting unit during the operation being carried by a standard 3 forms the base por- 66 of the device.

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- In order to cause the butter curls cut 01! from the cake I to fall from the cutting edge e at the completion of the downward stroke, I prefer to provide the lower end of the guides l with stop bolts II which are supported by springs 40 (Fisures 2, 3, 4) to allow the cutter 8 to move rapidly downward so that a slight shock will be created at the completion of the downward stroke. This shock will cause the curl to fall from the metal cutting edge I on which it otherwise might adhere thus preventing the buttercurls or rolls from being touched by human hands.

Whereas the cutter construction and "arrangement previously referred to is one feature of my invention, a further feature of my invention consists in means for automatically and gradually moving. the cake I of butter toward the cutter while the same is being reciprocated.

For this purpose, I prefer to provide the cutter unit with rollers 20 laterally extending therefrom and being adapted to engage curved levers 2i which are pivotally secured to the outer sides of the guides l at 22. The upper portion 23 of each lever ii is bent or curved outwardly as may be seen in Figure 4, whereas the lower end of each lever II is provided with a protruding portion 24.

Thus the levers II will be moved in an antislots :9 in the side panels 2 (Figures 2 and 4).

Ratchet bars-II, which engage he panels 28, are pivoted to the lower portions of the levers 2i at 8!. I prefer to connect the ratchet bars 30 to each other by means of a crosspiece 32, which may form a unit with the ratchet bars 30 and which has a handle 33 so that the ratchet bars 30 can be disengaged conveniently from the panels 2|. The tilting movement imparted to the levers 'Ii by the rollers 20, when the cutter 8 is reciprocated, causes a forward and backward movement of the ratchet bars 30, and this movement of the ratchet bars 30, which engage the panels 28, causes a gradual movement of the back.

panel 25 and of the cake! toward the cutter 8.

Thus the cake I of butter. once it has been placed upon the floorboard t has no longer to be touched by human hands and the curls cut oil from the cake I at each downward stroke of cutter 8 will be of equal thickness.

While there has been shown and described and pointed out the fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to a single modification, it will be understood that various omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details of the device illustrated and in its operation may be made by those skilled inthe art without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is the intention, therefore. to be limited only as indicated by the scope of the following claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent in the United States is:

corrugated cutter adapted to be reciprocated along said guides, a panel adapted to push said cake toward said cutter, ratchet bars adapted to engage pawls extending from said-panel, a curved lever pivotally connected to each of said ratchet bars and tiltably secured to one of said guides, and rollers carried by said cutter being adapted to engage said curved levers.

2. A device for making buttercurls comprising a corrugated cutter which is detachable from and vertically slidable in two guides and the cutting edge of which is angularly disposed to a cake of butter, a blade being rectangularly arranged to the cutting edge or said cutter and being adapted to subdivide the buttercurl cut off from said cake by the cutter, a piece of material which prevents butter from sticking thereon being secured to the lower side of said cutter and having two longitudinal grooves at its lower side, a base carrying said guides, a floorboard of a material which prevents butter from sticking thereon being secured to the upper side of said base, a panel adapted to push said cake toward said cutter, ratchet bars adapted to enga e pawls extending from said panel, a curved lever pivotally connected to each of said ratchet bars and tiltably secured to one of said guides, and rollers carried by said cutter being adapted to engage said curved levers.

' TED BAUMAN. 

